Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Computing programs all over the world have progressed rapidly over the past few years in terms of processing strength, feasibility, dependency, and user reach. There was a time in the late 1960s when students at MIT were using a complex set up to send simple one line messages to their peers across the United States of America. Decades of evolution passed, and today, almost 50 years later, we are standing on the threshold of something new and gigantic. Emerging computing technologies are changing the way we work, we govern, and most importantly the way we think.

Big data is changing the way people within organizations
work together. It is creating a culture in which business and IT leaders must
join forces to realize value from all data. Insights from big data can enable
all employees to make better decisions—deepening customer engagement,
optimizing operations, preventing threats and fraud, and capitalizing on new
sources of revenue. But escalating demand for insights requires a fundamentally
new approach to architecture, tools and practices.

Big data is an evolving term that describes any voluminous
amount of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data that has the
potential to be mined for information. Although big data doesn't refer to any
specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about petabytes and
exabytes of data.

Big data can be characterized by3Vs: the extreme volume of
data, the wide variety of types of data and the velocity at which the data must
be must processed.

The advent of so-called "big data" means that
companies, governments and organizations can collect, interpret and wield huge
stores of data to an amazing breadth of ends. The emergence of big data has
transformed the world of data into a deadly weapon for companies to manipulate.
Large amounts of unaccounted data roam the cyberspace today. However, the same
technology has been put to intelligent use by scientists and researchers all
over the world, using huge data sums to study the changing patterns in our
climate and proposing adequate changes for governments all across the globe.

With huge amounts of data, comes huge amount of
responsibility, and this is where data security comes into play. Companies are
investing heavily in data security so as to safeguard themselves from cyber
attacks that can potentially harm their customers and clients. Data security
involves setting up of complex computing systems that enable users to process
huge amount of data through filters, thus avoiding the presence of any malware.

Because big data takes too much time and costs too much
money to load into a traditional relational database for analysis,
new approaches to storing and analyzing data have emerged that rely less on
data schema and data quality. Instead, raw data with
extended metadata is aggregated in a data
lake and machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI)
programs use complex algorithms to look for repeatable
patterns.

Big data analytics is often associated with cloud
computing because the analysis of large data sets in real-time requires
a platform like Hadoop to store large data sets across a
distributed cluster and MapReduce to coordinate, combine
and process data from multiple sources.

Data is becoming the oil of the information age; a raw
material and the foundation of new goods and services. We can tap it because
society is rendering into a data format things that never were before, from our
friendships (think Facebook) to our whispers (think Twitter) to the way our car
engines grunt before a breakdown. It took a decade and billions of dollars to
decode the first human genome ten years ago. Today, that same amount of DNA is
sequenced in a day. The implications are as huge as the datasets themselves.

Monday, 12 January 2015

Microsoft is hosting a series of exclusive webinars on Azure - Microsoft’s cloud platform. Azure is a growing collection of integrated services that help you move faster, do more and increase productivity.

University Institute of Computing
Venue: Lab: 612,Level:06,Block:04

Event Coordinator: Mr.Gurpreet Singh, Head:UIC, 8288094332

Date

Time

Topic Name

Register

20-01-2015

10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.

All about the Next-generation release of Azure SQL Database

21-01-2015

03:00 P.M. - 04:00 P.M.

Using SQL Server on an Azure VM

22-01-2015

03:00 P.M. - 04:00 P.M.

The 'Why' and 'How' of Public Cloud

23-01-2015

03:00 P.M.- 04:00 P.M.

Learnings from Microsoft Technology Center on Data and Cloud platforms

Friday, 9 January 2015

Intel has come up with a compute-on-a-stick device which is pre-installed with Windows 8.1 or with Linux. The stick is four inches long and it carries a quad-core Intel Atom processor. Call it by its name, Compute Stick, or think of it as a neat way to do your work in a pocket-sized form factor. The stick has an HDMI output, a USB port and a microSD card slot.

Intel described the Compute Stick as having "built-in wireless connectivity, on-board storage, and a micro SD card slot for additional storage." The Intel Compute Stick launches later this year and the Intel Compute Stick site said to bookmark the page for details, product specs and availability information. What is already clear is that benefits include economy and convenience, as Intel said it offered "everything you love about your desktop computer in a device that fits in the palm of your hand." This is to be a low-cost plug-and-play transforming any large display into a functional computer. The mere fact that the stick has a Linux version for some is news in and of itself.

Lee Mathews in Geek.com ran through the differences between the stick's Windows 8.1 and Linux versions. With Ubuntu pre-installed, this Linux Compute Stick is to cost less. The stick will have just 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. Mathews said that was still plenty of power for basic computing tasks. The Windows with Bing version has 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage, and is priced at $149. Mathews said, "The Compute Stick could be a great way for schools, public libraries and other budget-constrained organizations to stretch their technology dollars." As for mobile workers, Nate Swanner in SlashGear noted that "If you were holed up in a hotel room, the dongle would be great for productivity so long as you had a keyboard and mouse with you." As Swanner suggested, with Compute Stick "you are essentially taking the PC mobile, with an operating system "in the form of an HDMI dongle."

Brad Linder of Liliputing said he could envision "a situation where companies would provide workers with Compute Sticks that they could use at home, at the office, or when working at remote locations while carrying all of their settings and programs with them."

Intel defines its Intel Compute Stick as a new generation of computing that transforms any HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) display into a fully functional computer. Intel has a benefit message for developers too. Intel said this could be a reliable low-power solution for developers creating light digital kiosks "with no-effort installation and delivering streaming or static HD content on displays located anywhere."

Intel plans to begin shipping the Compute Stick during the first quarter of 2015.

YouTube will reportedly working on adding a feature that will support 360-degree videos.

According to a Gizmodo report, this feature will allow users to upload videos taken with the special 360-degree cameras that are on their way into the market and will probably make use of virtual reality headsets, the Independent reported.

Many of those take the videos in different ways and with different results and YouTube's challenge was getting all of those different kinds of video to work on the site.

However, it's unclear whether the videos will be viewable for anyone using a computer, or if they will require a virtual reality headset to look around the scene.

It might also be available for the growing array of more high-tech goggles, including Samsung's Gear VR.

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